He is with Kirchner and her anti-western rhetoric.
I have yet to see her success using that blame-the-west and conspiracy nutjobs approach to socialise South America. As long as I don't see her fatten herself like Chavez (who probably took all the money), I wouldn't mind so much. I really hate opinion-leading, opposition-busting, popularity hunting, self-proclaiming socialist, who can't really manage their basic economy.
I have seen this before in Indonesia, and whether the current leader is right-wing or left-wing, it won't matter if the people are unhappy. Venezuela is suffering from high crime rates and shortage of stuffs. You can see it very well during Diego Buñuel's visit, despite him being accompanied by Chavez extremists during the entire show.
Yes, the graciously mustached Chavista has a jeep and cheap subsidized petrol, and he loved Chavez for that, but what about the rest of the countries? Some people smuggled the cheap petrol over the border to Colombia. Because it is a loophole and the government is so corrupt that border police do nothing about that. Then what is the typical incompetent reaction will be? I never know if Chavez ever said this, but I said this to represent his regime: "Colombia is an agent of evil US capitalist empire, and they are trying to steal our people's money! The cheap petrol subsidy are meant for Venezuelans, not the two-faced American lapdog!"
You blame outside party, instead of improving your own measures, like bolstering policing efforts to prevent that petrol leakage. That is typical flamboyant and corrupted country. Thankfully, Indonesia is not as flamboyant, just corrupt, because we can't afford being flamboyant. And we are 10,000 km away from them.
